Michael Lehman: The Podtridge Family

The Podtridge Family - Episode 3

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:10:47 GMT

January 9, 2004

We got Four Star Rating!!!!

Thanks to The New, New Podcast Reviews (www.podcastreviews.net) for great review!!

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Welcome to the third episode of The Podtridge Family

This week:

"Good (AKA The Podcasting Song)" (cc) 2005, Michael Lehman, Podcast rights granted [Length: 03:19]

This song was recorded, mixed and mastered entirely on my Pentium 4, Windows XP-based home computer in a single day. I got inspired by the PBS "Frontline" program which ran an episode called "The Persuaders" which exposed the lengths to which some advertisers will go to get their product in front of customers. The "bouncing" guitar sound was created by using the new Roger Linn-created AdrenaLinn II effects processor which was also used by John Mayer on his hit "Bigger Than My Body". Plus, it was fun writing what I think is the world's first song with the word "podcasting" in it!

The third and final song recorded at Lyndzie's 2001 session with Grammy-winning producer Clif Magness. Here Lyndize is expressing her point of view regarding obsessive music fans inspired by the behavior of fans of the band that inspired her to a musical career, Hanson.

An ode to the the stay-up-all-night, sleep-all-day lifestyle of the band.

Enjoy!

The Podtridge Family - Episode Two

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:30:06 GMT

December 19, 2004

Welcome to the second episode of The Podtridge Family

This week:

This song was recorded at the studio of Grammy-winning producer (and in this one case, co-writer), Clif Magness. Lynzdie and I went to Santa Monica to for her to work with Clif on June 6, 7 and 8 of 2001. Clif had a basic chord progression and gave a very basic track to Lyndzie who then took it back to the hotel room and, in about an hour, wrote the melody and lyrics. The next morning we went back to the studio and she recorded the vocal, all-the-way-through, in ONE take. The only overdubs in this song are a few "doubles" for the choruses.

This song was penned by Daniel's band mate and Argyle drummer, Doug Bellucci, as an ode to the Los Altos, California Police Department who kept stopping Argyle and their friends simply because they were teenagers driving like teenagers do...

During the height of the dot com boom one of the online brokerages companies, I think it was e*Trade, was running a commercial where an obvious dot com developer type came home to find all of his plants dead because he'd been working too hard. Being a developer and creative type, I knew well the feeling of coming up from the "zone" to find the world a different place than it was when I'd started. I'd also learned, as I suppose many of us have to, that a deadline, the bane of our existence, is sometimes the only way to force something to actually get "done"....and so, for creative professionals of all types...enjoy!

Enjoy!

The Podtridge Family - Episode One

Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:07:37 GMT

December 11, 2004

Welcome to the first episode of The Podtridge Family

This week:

This song was written in 2000 when Lyndzie and I rented a house near the beach in Venice, Calfornia for Spring Break. I wrote two songs and she wrote one and we enjoyed Southern California. It was the week the NASDAQ hit 5000 and the dot com world (although we didn't realize it at the time) started to come to an end.

This song was written by Lyndzie in 2000 while attending Middle School in Fort Collins, Colorado. The inspiring quote came, as far as I've been able to determine, from Lionel Barrymore, although it's also been attributed to George Burns.

This song was inspired by Alan Arkin's line from Apocalypse Now "love the smell of napalm in the morning. it smells like victory.." and infused with the angst of high school life for a teenager. Daniel is the bass player for Argyle and is the lead singer on this tune.

Enjoy!

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